The Dauphin Chapter of Habitat for Humanity announced this week two separate initiatives that the public can take part in to help raise funds for the local build this year.
- The first initiative is the Meaning of Home contest that is now open. The contest is a national writing contest for students from grades 4,5 and 6 nationwide.
- The contest will award $10 to the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity for every entry that is sent in.
- This contest is open until February 18 and there will be a total of 12 prizes handed out once the contest closes and judging of the entries takes place.
- There will be three grand prize winners which will each have a donation of $30,000 sent to their local chapter of Habitat along with nine runner-up prizes that will each see donations of $10,000 each sent to their local chapter.
- Teachers and parents can upload entries for this contest and get more info here.
- The second initiative is the Community Youth Innovators Program which is put on by Volunteer Manitoba. This program is open to youth aged 18-29 who are looking at helping out their communities.
- The program consists of 3 steps:
- Learning new skills in leadership, volunteer management, program planning and budgeting
- Create your project that you will work on with the help of Volunteer Manitoba and mentors from your organization as you work on the community projects with your selected organization.
- Reflecting on how the project went with some evaluation tools that will help youth reflect and review their individual projects to make sure they are effective and efficient.
- This program offers a budget of $2500 to $5000 to assist with your project depending on the size of the project.
- Youth can get all the info about this program here.
- The program consists of 3 steps:
The Dauphin Chapter of Habitat for Humanity is always willing to offer any help they can with answering questions about these projects and you can find them on Facebook or send an e-mail to Mariann Harvey at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
